Miroslav Cuk

to be semi-healthy at the beginning of the playoffs and just hopeful for them to not have too grueling of a round one so they could get healthy later in the playoffs and and possibly survive four different playoff series um yeah i this is not the 2023 team and that town 2023 team had a lot of grit to it

When you mentioned seeding, and I was just looking at the standing this morning, and the Nuggets are somehow number three again, even though they have one loss more than the Rockets.

But the Rockets somehow played three games fewer than the Nuggets.

I have no idea when they're going to play all those games.

It's going to be a nightmare for them at some point.

Exactly.

So the Nuggets are like five games in the last column behind the Spurs, and I don't think they can catch them.

The Spurs are young and ready to play hard every night, regardless of who's playing.

They have something like, I don't know, off the top of my head, something like 9-4 record when Mbanyama is not playing, which is like, yeah, that's perfectly good enough.

The Thunder is actually way closer to the Spurs than the Nuggets are to Spurs.

At the same time, the Lakers have the same number of losses as the Nuggets.

But I feel like they're the fakest playoff team of all time.

I just cannot believe they still have this kind of record with that kind of defense.

Which is pretty funny to say from a Nuggets fan perspective.

It's not like we're some dominant defensive force either.

It's just that I trust the composition of the team the Nuggets have way more than what Rob Lowe of LA Lakers have done for their team.

It's really interesting.

I agree with you.

There's not a single juggernaut out west this season.

The Thunder were the closest thing to it in the first half of the season or first third of the season, whatever.